No, I'm obviously not advising anyone to choose Keystone over Pitt, what I'm saying is that choosing to compete at the D-3 level at some programs is not the baseball purgatory that it used to be. The college game is scouted more thoroughly now, and the fact is that some D-3 programs are stronger than some D-1 programs. A recent discussion I had three weeks ago with an Ivy League assistant coach who will not be named resulted in him admitting to me for example, that if his team last spring played Johns Hopkins in a 7 game series, that Hopkins would likely have beaten them 4-5 games.
The point of my comment is that most HS players live in the shadow of the myth that playing (or riding the bench) at any D-1 program represents a more significant accomplishment than being a four-year starter at a D-3 school, and I think that's a fallacy. It depends on what the student/athlete wants in a school AND a baseball program.